[Numpy-discussion] Should array_equal work with non-numeric types?

[Christopher Barker]

Hi all,

Should array_equal work with non-numeric types?

 >>> a
array(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g'],
       dtype='|S1')
 >>> b = a.copy()
 >>> a == b
array([True, True, True, True, True, True, True], dtype=bool)
 >>> numpy.array_equal(a,b)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/numeric.py", 
line 652, in array_equal
     return logical_and.reduce(equal(a1,a2).ravel())
AttributeError: 'NotImplementedType' object has no attribute 'ravel'


I can use:
 >>> numpy.all(a==b)
True

But I was wondering if array_equal should work.

-Chris


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